Seanad debates
Wednesday, 5 February 2003
Road Safety: Motion.
The Department is also involved in the low cost safety scheme, which is basically for non-national roads. While it does not include traffic calming measures, it provides funding for local authorities to upgrade non-national roads. I could name umpteen locations in County Kilkenny that deserve support under the scheme but they will not receive it as funding is prioritised according to how many accidents have taken place at a given location. It is not good enough that we have to wait for somebody to be killed at a bend in the road before funds are allocated for that junction under the low cost safety scheme.
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